Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department have granted DOGE access to the Executive Office for Immigration Review's Courts and Appeals System, allowing six employees to access sensitive data on millions of immigrants. This includes addresses and case histories of legal and undocumented residents in the U.S. Concerns are raised about various government agencies, such as ICE and HUD, using sensitive databases to enforce immigration policies, potentially leading to negative impacts on compliant immigrants, according to legal experts.
It really hearkens to what we're seeing with Social Security, with the IRS, with data that was shared with an expectation of privacy, " National Immigration Law Center senior staff attorney Lynn Damiano Pearson told the Post.
DOGE's access to ECAS would have "very concerning impacts for immigrants, even ones who have specifically tried to comply with government policies and do everything right, so to speak".
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